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  2. Hoax - Wikipedia

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    Criminal hoax admissions, such as the case of John Samuel Humble, also known as Wearside Jack. Criminal hoax admissions divert time and money of police investigations with communications purporting to come from the actual criminal. Once caught, hoaxers are charged under criminal codes such as perverting the course of justice and wasting police ...

  3. Strip search phone call scam - Wikipedia

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    With every hoax, a male caller who identified himself as a police officer or other authority figure would contact a manager or supervisor and would solicit their help in detaining an employee or customer who was suspected of a crime, such as theft or drug possession.

  4. Swatting - Wikipedia

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    A dozen police officers, along with firefighters and paramedics surrounded his family home. In 2015, New Jersey State Assemblyman Paul D. Moriarty announced a bill [32] to increase sentences for hoax emergency calls, and was targeted by a hoax. [33] [34] The bill proposed prison sentences up to ten years and fines up to $150,000.

  5. The police thought her kidnapping was a hoax — but it wasn't ...

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    Vallejo Police dismiss the case, calling it a 'hoax' Quinn, speaking to Netflix’s publication Tudum, reflected on the police department’s response.

  6. Device driven to police station was elaborate hoax ‘made to ...

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    Police said the involvement of dissident republicans in a security alert in Londonderry was a strong line of inquiry. ... “It is an elaborate hoax device, meant to look like a car bomb. There ...

  7. New York police officer arrested on charges of sending hoax ...

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    On 23 August, police chief Kevin Sylvester convened a meeting to discuss the mesages, inviting local officials like the mayor. That same month, Hirshowitz attempted to withdraw her complaint.

  8. Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax - Wikipedia

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    On February 13, 2019, Chicago police raided the home of two "persons of interest" in the case. The men, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, were brothers of Nigerian descent [44] who'd acted as extras on Empire, the television series in which Smollett was a main cast member. [45] Police recovered bleach and other items from the home. [46]

  9. Kidnapping of California woman that police called a hoax gets ...

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    police call it a hoax That same day, police in Vallejo announced in a news conference that they had found no evidence of a kidnapping and accused Huskins and Quinn of faking the abduction, which ...